Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CorelDRAW Workspace
Menu bar: The area containing pull- Toolbar: A bar that contains shortcuts
down options and commands. to menu and other commands, such
as zoom levels, view modes, and
alignment commands.
Toolbox: Contains tools for creating Property bar: A bar with commands
and modifying objects in the drawing. that relate to the active tool or object.
With the Welcome Screen, you can quickly start or open a document, access online learning videos and other learning resources, and get inspired by a gallery of
original artwork created with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. Plus, discovery files can help you get started quickly with both CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.
Shapes
CorelDRAW offers a wide variety of tools for drawing shapes.
Lines Rectangles
The drawing tools from the Curve flyout let you draw curved and straight
By dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool , you can draw a rectangle
lines, and lines containing both curved and straight segments. The line
segments are connected by nodes, which are depicted as small squares. or a square (when holding down Command). The 3-point rectangle tool
lets you quickly draw rectangles at an angle.
The Freehand and Polyline tools let you draw freehand lines as if you
were sketching on a sketchpad.
The Bézier and Pen tools let you draw lines one segment at a time by
placing each node with precision and controlling the shape of each curved
To draw an arc or a pie shape, you can click the Arc or Pie button on
the property bar and then drag.
Complex shapes
You can use the tools on the Object flyout to draw polygons, grids, spirals,
and two types of stars: perfect and complex. Use the property bar to change
the number of polygon sides, star points, grid columns, or spiral revolutions.
To create a symmetrical design, select or draw a curve or a shape, click Object
Symmetry Create New Symmetry. Add more objects, and edit the objects
as needed. To add more symmetry lines, type a number in the Mirror lines box
on the floating toolbar. Click Object Symmetry Finish Editing Symmetry.
Predefined shapes
With the Common Shapes tool on the Object flyout, you can also draw basic
shapes, arrows, flowchart shapes, banners, and callout shapes. Select a preset
shape on the property bar, and drag the diamond-shaped handle (glyph) to
modify the appearance of some shapes.
To draw parallel lines, click a curve tool, and click the Parallel Drawing button 1 2
on the property bar. On the Parallel Drawing toolbar, click the Parallel
Perspective drawing Paragraph text can be used for larger bodies of text that have greater
formatting requirements. Before you add paragraph text, you must drag with
Using perspective drawing, you can draw complex
the Text tool to create a text frame.
sketches, patterns, and designs, creating the
illusion of distance and depth. When you draw in To insert placeholder text, click in the empty text frame with the Text tool, and
perspective, CorelDRAW automatically creates a click Text Paragraph Text Frame Insert Placeholder Text. Placeholder text
makes it easier to assess the appearance of your document prior to finalizing
perspective field and lets you add lines and
its content.
shapes that align with the perspective lines. The
result is a perspective group comprising of the You can use artistic text for short lines of text to which you can apply a wide
perspective field and the objects you added. range of effects, such as drop shadows or contours. You can add artistic text
to an open or a closed path.
To draw in perspective, make sure no objects are
selected by clicking an empty space in the drawing window with the Pick tool.
Click Object Perspective Draw in Perspective, and choose a perspective Fit text to a path
type from the Type list box on the floating toolbar. Drag in the drawing window
to set the perspective field. To choose the plane you want to draw on, click one To fit text to a path, select the text, and click Text Fit Text
of the following buttons: Orthographic , Top , Left (Side for one-point to Path. Move the pointer over a path and use the dynamic
perspective) , or Right . Click a line or a shape tool, and draw one or more preview to position the text. Click to attach the text to the
objects. Click Finish on the floating toolbar.
path.
To add an existing object to the perspective group, right-click the object, click
Move to Plane, and choose a plane. To type text on a path, click the Text tool , and point to a path.
When the pointer changes to a Fit to Path pointer, click to add text.
axes specified by the font designer. 6 Choose a unit of measure from the Units list box.
To adjust variable font properties, select text that uses a variable font using the
Text tool . Click the Variable fonts button on the property bar, and
adjust any available font properties.
To view or hide grids, guidelines, and rulers, click the View menu, and choose
the items you want to display.
Layers
All content is placed on layers. Content that applies to
a specific page is placed on a local layer. Content that
The Pages inspector (Window Inspectors Pages) applies to all pages in a document can be placed on a
lets you display pages in document order or free-form global layer called a master layer. Master layers are
mode. When designing and reviewing proofs for printed stored on a virtual page called the Master Page.
materials, such as brochures, books, and magazines,
visible editable
where pages have a fixed sequence, you can choose to
arrange pages in a column, row, or grid. Custom mode,
which allows for a free-form, non-sequential layout, is
great for working with documents in which different
layer name printable
assets for a project are placed on separate pages.
Master layers
To arrange multiple pages, click the Multipage View button in the Pages With a choice of odd, even, and all-page master layers, it is easy to create
inspector, and then click the Multipage view settings button. Click the Grid page-specific designs for multi-page documents, such as 16- or 32-page
, Vertical , or Horizontal button to display pages in document order. brochures.
Click the Custom button to display pages in free-form mode.
To add a guideline, drag from the vertical or horizontal ruler into the drawing
Drawing scale window, or click Layout Page Layout, and choose Guidelines in the left
pane of the dialog box.
You can choose a preset or custom drawing scale so that distances in a
drawing are proportionate to real-world distances. For example, you can Snapping
specify that 1 inch in the drawing corresponds to 1 meter in the physical world. When you move or draw an object, you can snap it to another object in a
To set the drawing scale, double-click a ruler to display the Preferences dialog drawing, to page elements (such as the center of the page), to the document
box. Click Edit scale, and choose a preset or a custom drawing scale. If the grid, pixel grid, baseline grid, or the guidelines. When an object is moved near
rulers are not displayed, click View Rulers.
a snap point, it is locked to the snap point.
Grid and baseline grid To turn snapping on or off, click Snap To on the standard toolbar, and enable
or disable snapping for the page elements you want.
The grid is a series of intersecting dashed lines or dots that you can use to
To disable all selected snapping options temporarily, click View Snap Off. To
precisely align and position objects in the drawing window. The baseline grid restore the selected snapping options, click View Snap Off once again.
consists of lines that follow the pattern of a ruled sheet, helping you to align
text baselines. Alignment guides
To set up the grid and the baseline grid, click Layout Page Layout, and Alignment guides help you position objects more quickly. These temporary
choose Grid in the left pane of the dialog box. guidelines appear when you create, resize, or move objects in relation to the
center or edges of nearby objects.
Guidelines
To display alignment guides, click View Alignment Guides. To modify
Guidelines are lines that can be placed anywhere in the drawing window to alignment guide settings, click Window Inspectors Live Guides, and
aid in object placement. You can select, move, rotate, lock, or delete a choose the options you want.
guideline, and you can change its color or dashed line pattern.
To change the order of selected objects, click Object Order, and choose an
option from the menu.
To select multiple objects, hold down Shift, and then click each object. To erase unwanted portions of bitmaps and vector objects, use the Eraser tool
. If you want to erase only portions of a specific object, you have to select it.
To move a selected object, point to its center and then drag the object to a new When no object is selected, the Eraser tool removes any part of the drawing
location. over which you drag.
Click twice an object to activate the rotation handles. Drag a corner Properties inspector
handle to rotate an object clockwise or counterclockwise. Drag a
middle handle to skew an object interactively. Drag the center to The Properties inspector (Window Inspectors Properties) presents
set the relative center of an object. object-dependent formatting options and properties.
When you group two or more objects, they are treated as a single
unit. Grouping lets you apply the same formatting to all the objects within the
group.
To group or ungroup selected objects, click Object Group, and choose the
option you want.
Shape objects To create an arc from an ellipse, drag the node while keeping the pointer
outside the ellipse.
You can change the shape of an object by using the Shape tool . Different
types of objects can be shaped in different ways.
Polygons and stars
Rectangles To reshape a polygon or a star, click the Shape tool , and drag a node in
any desired direction. To create a star from a polygon, drag a node toward the
You can drag any corner of a rectangle with the Shape tool to round all
center.
corners. You can also create chamfered, scalloped, or rounded corners from
the property bar when you click the Rectangle tool .
You can shape curve and line objects by manipulating their nodes and
segments with the Shape tool , and by adding and deleting nodes.
End Node
Start Node (indicates curve direction)
Node
You can also fill objects with vector graphics (vector pattern fills) or bitmap
images (bitmap pattern fills).
Control Handle
Control Point
To add a node, double-click on the path, or click on the path and then click the
Add nodes button on the property bar.
To delete a node, double-click the node, or select the node and then click the
Delete nodes button on the property bar.
To reduce the number of nodes, marquee select them with the Shape tool , Texture fills can simulate the look and feel of natural
and click Reduce Nodes on the property bar.
materials such as water, clouds, and stone. PostScript
fills are complex texture fills that are created in the
PostScript language.
A color palette is a collection of color swatches. You can choose both fill and When you sample color with the Color Eyedropper tool , the tool
outline colors by using the default color palette. The selected fill and outline automatically switches to the Apply Color mode so that you can immediately
colors appear in the color swatches on the status bar. apply the sampled color.
Color management
Color management ensures a more accurate color representation when a To apply a contour, select an object, and click the Contour tool . Drag the
document is viewed, modified, shared, exported to another format, or start handle toward the center to create an inside contour or away from the
printed. You can use default or document-specific color management settings center to create an outside contour.
You can contour an object to create a series of concentric lines that progress You can apply preset drop shadows and inner shadows from the property bar.
Bitmap effects
To apply a block shadow, click the Block shadow tool , click the object, and
drag in the direction you want until the block shadow is the size you want. Bitmap effects, which are pixel-based and non-destructive, can be applied
both to vector and bitmap objects. Bitmap effects are listed in the top part of
Mosaics
the Effects menu in CorelDRAW. You can use the FX tab in the Properties
With the Pointillizer effect (Effects Pointillizer), you can create high-quality inspector (Windows Inspectors Properties) to show, hide, and edit
vector mosaics from any number of selected vector or bitmap objects. From effects, apply additional effects, and more.
precise halftone patterns to artistic effects that resemble pointillistic art, this
effect gives you the tools you need to create striking designs.
To enable Pixels view, click View Pixels. From the Zoom levels list box on the
property bar, choose 800%.
To add an effect in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, you can also use the Effects inspector
(Window Inspectors Effects) or the Add Effect button in the Objects
inspector (Window Inspectors Objects).
Trace bitmaps
Brush picker
You can trace bitmaps and turn them into vector graphics in one step by
The Brush picker in Corel PHOTO-PAINT using the Quick Trace command, or you can use the PowerTRACE™ controls
helps you find brushes by combining all to preview and adjust the traced results. AI-assisted features, accessible from
brush categories and brush types in one the Adjustments page in Corel PowerTRACE, deliver the best bitmap-to-
location. Available from the property bar vector trace results yet. You can use cutting-edge image-optimization options
for the Paint , Effect , and Clone that help improve the quality of a bitmap as you trace it.
tools, the Brush picker provides nib To trace a bitmap, select the bitmap in CorelDRAW, click Trace Bitmap on the
and brush stroke previews and stores the property bar, and choose a trace method.
You can also export your projects to bitmap images suitable for WordPress
and then upload them to your WordPress account (File Export To
WordPress).
To export an object, you must first select it in the document and click the Add You can use alignment keyboard shortcuts to quickly position objects on the
new button in the Export inspector to add it to the export list.
page. Select the objects that you want to align, and press a shortcut key.
To add the active page to the export list, you must deselect all objects on the
page, and click the Add new button in the Export inspector. Shift +T - Top Shift + C - Center
To export assets from Export inspector, enable the check boxes beside their
names, specify the export settings you want for each asset, and click Export.
To add an asset by reusing the settings of an item in the export list, select the
Shift + L -
asset in the document. In the Export inspector, click the Options button
beside the entry whose settings you want to copy, and click Add Asset with Shift + R - Right
These Settings.
Shift + E - Even
Corel, the Corel logo, the Corel balloon logo, CorelDRAW, the CorelDRAW balloon logo, Corel Font Manager, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, CONNECT, LiveSketch and
PowerTRACE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation in Canada, the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc.
All other company, product and service names, logos, brands and any registered or unregistered trademarks mentioned are used for identification purposes only
and remain the exclusive property of their respective owners. Use of any brands, names, logos or any other information, imagery or materials pertaining to a
third party does not imply endorsement. We disclaim any proprietary interest in such third-party information, imagery, materials, marks and names of others. A
non-exhaustive list of those issued patents is available at www.corel.com/patent.
Original sample artwork is provided by third parties and is used, and/or modified, by permission, unless otherwise agreed with such parties.
Product specifications, pricing, packaging, technical support and information (“specifications”) refer to the retail English version only. The specifications for all
other versions (including other language versions) may vary.
203063